4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literature

dc.citation.firstpage181en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber1en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleJBLen_US
dc.citation.lastpage200en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber131en_US
dc.contributor.authorHenze, Matthiasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-30T15:26:30Z
dc.date.available2013-04-30T15:26:30Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractStudents of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch have long noticed numerous thematic, generic, and linguistic parallels that exist between them. Both texts were written in the late first or possibly the early second century C.E., most likely in the land of Israel. The composition of both works was triggered by the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E., as both texts are, in essence, elaborate responses to the host of challenges posted by the Roman aggression. Both stories are set fictitiously during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C.E. 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch are Jewish apocalypses of the historical type, and both make extensive use of the same set of literary genres, such as prophetic dialogue, prayer, public speech, and the symbolic dream vision. Neither author reveals his identity by instead chooses to write pseudonymously in the voice of a biblical scribe of the exilic and early postexilic period: Ezra, who returned the Torah to Jerusalem, and Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. What drives the momentum forward is a continuous revelatory dialogue between the seer and God, or God's interpreting angel. By the end of each book both seers have undergone a remarkable transformation, from skeptic to consoler, ideal community leader, and latter-day Moses.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationHenze, Matthias. "4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literature." <i>JBL,</i> 131, no. 1 (2012) the Society of Biblical Literature: 181-200. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71050">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71050</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/71050
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherthe Society of Biblical Literature
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dc.title4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literatureen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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